Michelle Nunn gets help from John Lewis – Associated Press – POLITICO.com

DECATUR, Ga. — Michelle Nunn’s difficult political balancing act as she seeks Georgia’s open U.S. Senate seat was on full display at a rally Monday alongside civil rights icon John Lewis.

Calling Nunn a “smart, gifted” force who would help “move Georgia into the 21st century,” the Atlanta congressman roused several hundred black voters in the Democratic stronghold of south DeKalb County.

“Now, look, almost 50 years ago, I gave a little blood on that bridge in Selma, Alabama,” Lewis boomed, recalling Bloody Sunday in 1965. “I almost died for the right to vote. Some of my friends died. We’re still alive, so you have to go out there and vote like you never voted before.”

The crowd roared with the kind of enthusiasm Nunn needs for black voters to wield enough influence on Nov. 4. Yet even with a strong minority turnout, she needs a decent slice of the white vote — perhaps as much as a third — to defeat Republican David Perdue.

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